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covered with yellow or black pubescence according to the colour 
of the surface. 
Legs.—Anterior pairs principally orange yellow; anterior 
femora black on about the basal half; hind legs principally black, 
knees broadly brownish yellow as are the last four tarsal joints. 
Anterior femora with some moderately long yellowish or brownish 
yellow hairs on under side, with black hairs intermixed towards 
tips of fore pair and generally on underside of middle pair. 
Conspicuous thick but short black hairs on hind femora, longest 
on underside, and on front and hind sides of hind tibiae. 
Wings yellowish grey, stigma brown; squamae yellowish 
brown with fringe of the same colour. 
Described from 3 ¢ # from Tolpani, Garhwal District, 9500 ft., 
23-iv-14 to 13-v-14 
The unbroken pinkish grey bands on the abdomen easily 
separate this species from all other Oriental ones, and from all 
European or North American species known to me. 
SPHAEROPHORIA, St. Farg. 
Few genera offer more complexities than this, as s regards the 
limits of the species. 
The present notes must therefore be regarded as simply a 
contribution towards a better knowledge of the Oriental species ; 
and apart from the two perfectly good species scutellaris, F., and 
javana, W., the four forms recognized and described herein are 
termed and understood as ‘‘ forms ’’ only, although it seems prob- 
able that vividaenea will eventually prove specifically distinct. 
In working out the fairly good series of specimens in the 
Indian Museum I adopted the plan of dividing them into ‘‘ forms’’ 
previous to consulting any of the descriptions, treating the 7 7 
first and the @ 2 subsequently, moreover in each case without any 
reference to the localities of the specimens. 
By this method one avoids being prejudiced in favour of 
pairing off #» 7 and 2? @ according to the localities, and a more 
trustworthy result is likely to ensue. 
In the present instance the six male forms sorted themselves 
readily enough and were backed up in every case by females from 
the same localities; proving to be the two well marked and known 
species scutellaris, F., and javana, W., with four remaining forms 
of which I have ventured to give names to three. 
One point noticeable about them all is that the yellow 
markings of the abdomen are almost always definite bands and not 
pairs of spots more or less resolving into bands as in the European 
species. 
Apart from scutellaris, F. (with aegyptius, W., longicornis, 
Macq., splendens, Dol., and Melithreptus novaeguineae, Kert., as 
synonyms), and javana, W. (with Melithreptus distinctus, Kert., 
as a synonym) the only other two described species are bengalensis, 
Macq., and indianus, Big. 
